Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Review Test the Third

Today's Japanese lesson was actually a big revision test (our third one so far). I think it went all right despite having hardly revised: I did quickly flick through a little vocabulary though. Hirata-sensei gave us all some little sweets afterwards since she doesn’t like them. I haven’t tried them yet but they are supposedly very sweet and are normally eaten along with tea, like at a tea ceremony.

I had ramen for lunch today! I forced myself to have something other than curry-rice (I had it twice yesterday!). After lunch we had Seb’s history lesson again today: the Meiji Restoration. This brings us up to about 1875, though I’m guessing we’re going to start covering fewer dates with each lesson from now on. It was pretty interesting again today, though I always think that; perhaps more so than usual as everyone stayed awake throughout.

I had Linden Hall with Binks and Flick in the afternoon. We took both classes together, so we had 12 kids altogether. We did parts of the body culminating in a great game called “Touch Edd.” I wasn't so keen on the concept to begin with, but it was quite fun after I removed “navel” from the list of parts they could use. Basically, two kids at a time had to touch the correct part of me after being told the name, with the fastest one gaining their team a point. We did make it quite difficult though with parts like “shin,” “thigh,” and “forearm.” That stumped a few of them. We played outside with them afterwards, which was the first time in a long time that we have. It’s been too dark and too cold the last few weeks I did it.

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